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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...ever since. The Joneses promotional poster. Bunny Lake Films LLC, 2016. The documentary project spun out of my first book, Men Like That: A Southern Queer History, which began as...

Reckoning with Enslavement

...uncovering the lawsuits they had brought against the Jesuits and other prominent Maryland slaveholders long before the 1838 sale. Some won their freedom. Others didn't—but each of their cases challenged...

Unquiet Emmett Till

...haunted a whole generation of people, especially those who became activists in the Freedom Struggle. Darryl Mace's In Remembrance of Emmett Till: Regional Stories and Media Responses to the Black...

"Aint that Something?"

Review Since the late nineteenth century, Appalachia has been exploited, sensationalized, or deeply romanticized across literature, art, and popular culture. The "local color" authors after the Civil War depicted stereotypes...

1108 Dynamite Hill

Video https://player.vimeo.com/video/652096254?h=527be50265&amp Essay Jeff Drew, born in 1951, is a lifelong resident of Birmingham, Alabama's North Smithfield neighborhood. In 2013, following the fiftieth anniversary commemoration of the Birmingham campaign of...

Southern Spaces, #TooFEW, and Wikipedia

...and updated articles related to the publication. Then we told that we were self-promoting and should stop; also some of our contributions were removed. As the managing editor at Southern...